Parallel Distributed Processing
by David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, PDP Research Group · Rumelhart
Volume 1 of the 1986 Rumelhart and McClelland collection that revived neural network research, presenting the parallel distributed processing framework, distributed representations, and the backpropagation chapter, alongside connectionist models of perception, memory and schemata.
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